This Was A "bad" Example For U.s.

More And More People Are Able To Access Information - Thank Goodness We Have The Internet And If You Are Interested You Can Find Things. Which Is Different Than Even 20 Years Ago.

I Think Haiti Is A Place That Suffers So Much From Neglect That People Only Want To Hear About It When It’s At Its Extreme. And That’s What They End Up Knowing About It.

Wonderful Thing About Novels Is That Sometimes We Read A Novel And We Know The Person In The Novel More Than We Know People In Our Own Lives.

America's Relationship With Haiti Has Always Been Very Complicated. I Often Say To People, "before We Came To America, America Came To Us In The Form Of The American Occupation From 1915 To 1934."

Aids Was Something That Was Put Upon Us [as Haitians], And We Were Immediately Identified With It. That Is Unfair. That Is Unjust. I Always Say, "we Are All People Living With Aids." It's Not Like You Can Avoid It. It's Part Of Our World.